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health advisory Hospital Alternative Medicine 2007-11-16 3:14:02

How educated are they? How many years?

Answer:

Most State boards require at least 2 years of undergraduate education, and an increasing number require a 4-year bachelor's degree. All boards require completion of a 4-year chiropractic college course at an accredited program leading to the Doctor of Chiropractic degree.

In 2005, 15 chiropractic programs and 2 chiropractic institutions in the United States were accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education. All required applicants to have at least 90 semester hours of undergraduate study leading toward a bachelor's degree, including courses in English, the social sciences or humanities, organic and inorganic chemistry, biology, physics, and psychology. Many applicants have a bachelor's degree, which may eventually become the minimum entry requirement. Several chiropractic colleges offer prechiropractic study, as well as a bachelor's degree program. Recognition of prechiropractic education offered by chiropractic colleges varies among the State boards.

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the degree pre-chiropractic studies are fully established. The degree of education largely depends on the school. There are good ones, like the one I attended, and poor ones. Each chiropractor must pass a series of board exams in order to practice. The schooling lasts for 3.5 years and a good school is quite intensive, hard, and they work your butt off.

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